A SCENE FROM THE PHOTOPLAY. She turned up dead after about eight
weeks and it broke my heart. Marriage! … without the least
conception of the physical and moral responsibilities! It's a crime, Mac!"
"But what can you do?" McClintock turned to the manager. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. “Will you say what you have to say, please, and go. Among his
books, Plutarch's Lives, and the Histories of Great Commanders, appeared to
have been frequently consulted; but the dust had gathered thickly upon the
Carpenter's Manual, and a Treatise on Trigonometry and Geometry. “Yes I did. Well, I don't blame you on that ground. “Why come after me after all these years, Sebastianus?
Haven’t you found any sycophants to convert, any nubile
young nymphets to bring into the cannibal flock?”
“Why should I do that if there is still the chance of
you?”
“What if there could be no chance of me? How do
you know you can have me?”
“I see your game. But
that doesn’t alter the fact that there IS innocence. There was no reason why she
shouldn’t be Capes’ friend.
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